| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Zhang Bingjian in 2009. |
| Summary |
Mao Zedong died in 1976, but his impersonators are alive and well. This film documents the lives of two people who resemble Mao and assume Mao roles. Peng Tian is a villager from Mao’s home province of Hunan, who walked into the Beijing Film Academy one day in full Mao dress to study film acting. Chen Yan is a housewife from Sichuan Province, whose mother realized she looked like Mao twenty years earlier, but it isn’t until the twenty-first century that Chen gives the role a try. "*READYMADE approaches black comedy, revealing the absurdity of how people from one era worship an idol from another.*" –***Ai Weiwei*** |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Subject |
Asians.
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Current affairs.
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History.
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Political science.
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Documentary films.
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| Genre |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Bingjian, Zhang, film director.
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Zhang Bingjian (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
6452346 Kanopy |
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